Improvement in pulverizer, leveller, and marker



L. JONES.

Clod Crusher.

Patented Dec. 15, 1868.

Inventor:

LEWIS JONES, OF FUNK S GROVE, ILLINOIS. Letters Patent No. 85,010, dotedDecembe'r 15, 18fi8.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it mwy concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS J onus, of Funks Grove, in the county of McLean, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and improved Pulverizer, Leveller, and Marker for preparing ground preparatory to planting; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, sufficient .to enable those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains, to fully understand and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, forming part ofthis specification, and in which my invention is represented by a perspective view of my improved implement. I My invention is a new and useful simple implement for pulverizing,levelling, and marking-plowed ground, preparatory to planting corn; and

It consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter described.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawing.

In the drawings- A B represent two parallel beams, connected together by cross-bars d, fitted in or through mortises in the said beams A B.

To the front beam B, and extending the entire length of the same, a plate, b, is secured, by means of screws f; or in any other suitable manner, so that it projects slightly below the beam to which it is attached.

To the rear beam A, teeth or shovels a are secured, at such distances apart as may be found best.

D represents the tongue, removably fitted-in mortises c, in the front beam B.

When it is desired to use only one horse, the tongue is detached, and shafts may be hung to the projecting parts of the connections (l.

The operation is as follows:

In passing over the plowed land, the teeth a sink the machine is drawn along, the clods are broken by contact with the plate I), and levelled by the lower edge of the same, as it passes over. The teeth (1 also perfect, but their particular office is to mark the rows in which the corn is to be afterwards planted.

Constructed as above described, a very eflicient, durable, simple, and consequently inexpensive implement is produced, whereby the labor of preparing ground for planting is greatly facilitated, so that the corn maybe planted much earlier'than-usual, and will therefore be perfected before frost.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new. and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The combination of the parallel beams A B, provided respectively with shovel-teeth a and metallic herein described.

as herein described. 2

- LEWIS JONES. Witnesses: J. M. LONGSTRETH, WM. FULTON, Jr.

only a short distance into the ground; therefore, as-

assist in this pulven'zing of the soil, to render it more plate b, and connected together by bars (1, all constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as 2. The combinedpulverizer, leveller, and marker, 

